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60 Minutes Australia Used My Shelly Miscavige Reporting Without Crediting Me

Mistakes happen in this business, but this wasn't a mistake.

60 Minutes Australia used my exclusive reporting on Shelly Miscavige, Scientology, and the LAPD without crediting me. Reporting on this story came at an enormous personal cost to me, and reporting on Scientology is dangerous and expensive.

Not giving credit to someone’s reporting is never acceptable in journalism. Yes, mistakes happen. Sometimes reporters won’t know that someone reported a detail first, but to obtain the photographs and documents in the story above, 60 Minutes Australia would have had to go to my story to lift them.

Last week, when I learned that 60 Minutes Australia was set to air a report about Scientology, I was excited. They’ve done some critical and incredible reporting on Scientology in the past. 

This is enormously frustrating. 

If you haven’t read my exclusive report on Shelly Miscavige and the LAPD, which is based on confidential LAPD documents that I obtained, I hope you will.

And I hope you’ll consider becoming a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this sort of reporting. 

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Caroline's avatar

So sorry, Yashar! I follow you on all platforms and know the tireless hours you’ve dedicated to this work. You deserve to be credited!

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Ann's avatar

Oh wow! What recourse, if any do you have? It's very obvious to anyone who is paying attention that you're meticulous in your reporting. Which translates to many hours of putting in the hard work to produce a credible article. Wrong in any number of ways!

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Jenn's avatar

Thank you, Yashar for your excellent reporting and bringing the facts to light on many subjects. I hope you get the credit you undoubtedly deserve. Hopefully the work you do will be part of the reason the COS goes down for good!

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Karen Pressley's avatar

Very sorry to hear this, Yashar. And here I had a high opinion of their reporting on their latest Valerie Haney story that included Claire Headley. I hope they did not pull the same unprofessional tactics in that story as they did to yours. I see this type of plagiarism happening in popular blogs as well that commonly steal Tony Ortega’s reporting and give him no credit, making it sound as if they collected all the research/reporting themselves. I no longer follow that plagiaristic video channel. Meanwhile, keep doing your excellent work, Yashar.

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Patrick Pagan's avatar

The mainstream media is trash. They would run their loved ones final moments for like 10k extra impressions

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Martha Ross's avatar

Yashar, I read your report on Shelly when it came out and very much appreciate all the work you have done on reporting on Scientology. You know... It is 60 Minutes Australia. From some of the other 60 Minutes Australia reports I've seen, I get the sense that the Australian version doesn't quite adhere to the standards of the original 60 Minutes. That may not be any consolation.

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Batool Khosroshahi's avatar

Yashar can you take any legal action against the 60 minutes of Australia?

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Lea's avatar

Talk to a lawyer, what do you have to lose? I appreciate your reporting and you shouldn’t let this slide.

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Slacker's avatar

That is terrible 😞. I feel bad I didn’t right off notice that when I watched yesterday. All they would had to do is phone you and add you in to the exposure. I wonder why they didn’t?

They also yesterday re-released one they did from 10+ years ago and didn’t note the original date.

I’ll say something in their comments. Thank you for all you do ❤️

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Amy's avatar

So frustrating.

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Joan Valentine's avatar

Such effing BS - pathetic apology after the fact - you put yourself on the line for your detailed story - infuriating 🤬

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Miss Muffet's avatar

Keep the good work up. Your stories are very interesting. Yeah I think no Credit to you wasn't ok.

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erica b's avatar

60 mins australia is the worst (im australian)

they are so bad to do that

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Jana Maciejczak's avatar

I'm so sorry!! Yep I heard it first from you!! Love your reporting!! You deserve the credit!

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Karin Johansson's avatar

Can I donate via PayPal or something to support you?

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